FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: WILCOX, Phineas Bacon (published 1880)
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Historical Collections of Ohio
By Henry Howe LL.D.

PHINEAS BACON WILCOX

Phineas Bacon Wilcox was born in 1798 on "Forty Rod Hill," his fathers
farm near Middletown,  Conn.,  and died at Columbus in 1863.  He was
educated at Yale,  came to Columbus in 1824,  and became eminent as a
land and also as a chancery lawyer.  He was by turns prosecuting
attorney reporter for the Supreme Court and United States commissioner, 
which last office he resigned rather than be made instrument in
remanding a fugitive slave to bondage.  He was a fine classical
scholar,  and had one of the finest law libraries in the West.  He had
deep religious convictions and was said by a friend to have lived upon
Coke and the Bible.  He prepared various law works,  as "Ohio Forms and
Practice,"  "Practical Forms Under the Code of Civil Procedure,"  etc. 
With politics he would have nothing to do,  other than voting,  although
a staunch Republican.  He never doubted,  bu that the rebellion would be
squelched,  but the great peril would come after the war from want of
loyalty of the South to the General Government.
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